‘Abdullah (name)

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Abdullah Given Name
Gender	Male
Meaning	servant of God
Related names	Abdullah, Abd Allah, Abdallah, and Abdalla
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Abdullah

‘Abdullāh (عبد الله "servant of God", also spelled Abdullah, Abd Allah, Abdallah, and Abdalla) is a common Arabic name. Humility before God is an essential value of Islam, so that Abdullah is a favorite name among Muslims. There have been many notable figures named ‘Abdullah:

• Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Muttalib (545-570), the father of Muhammad.
• Abdallah El-Yafi, Former Lebanese Prime Minister
• ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa, also known as Abu Bakr.
• Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy, a leading inhabitant of Medina and contemporary of Muhammad.
• `Abd Allah ibn Rawahah, general in the Battle of Mut'ah.
• ‘Abdullah ibn Sa‘ad, the son of Said and foster-brother of Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, led the Muslim invasion of Libya from 647 to 648.
• ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad, seventh Emir of Córdoba (888-912).
• Abdullah (Almohad Caliph), Caliph of Morocco (1224-1227).
• ‘Abdullah (Chagatai Khanate) (d. 1359), ruler of the Chagatai.
• ‘Abdullah (Timurid) (d. 1451), ruler of the Timurid Empire.
• Abdullah bin Saud, leader of the House of Saud (1814-1818).
• Abdullah I of Jordan, emir of Transjordan (1921-46), then King of Transjordan (1946-49), then King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1949-51).
• Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey.
• ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Azzam (1941-1989), an Islamist leader, assassinated in 1989.
• Abdullah II of Jordan, King of Jordan (1999-)
• King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Sheikh Abdullah (1905–1982), known as Sher-e-Kashmir, Prime Minister of Kashmir.
• Dr. Abdullah, sometimes called Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister of Afghanistan.
• Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the current prime minister of Malaysia.
• Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish opposition leader and founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party.
• Abdullah, a horse that competed in the sport of show jumping.
• Abdullah the Butcher, professional wrestler known to poke people with forks
• Tewfik Abdullah, one of the first African soccer players in the U.K. and U.S
• Abdullah al-Amiri, a judge in the trial of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was replaced after allegations of bias.
• three priests named Abdallah were martyred with Abda and Abdjesus
• Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, an early nineteenth-century Malay writer
• Meer Abdullah Harun, a Bangladeshi writer

The name is cognate to and has the same meaning as Hebrew Abdiel.

place names

• Qaysān (Abdullah Qeissan), also called Abdullah